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Singing at Sonic

I don't know or care if this is done by the brand or just the singer, but it's great. via Reddit and Stevie Dove

 

Analyzing Sir Martin

It’s a disadvantage of the revolution. People used to say that information is power but that’s no longer the case. It’s analysis of the data, use of the data, digging into it – that is the power. You get so much of the stuff and everyone has access to it. via Google's Think Quarterly

100 Great Bullet Points from Cannes

100 Bullet Points from #CannesLions 2011 by @jessedee

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100 Beautiful Slides

100+ Beautiful Slides from #CannesLions '11 from @jessedee

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More Social Things

Between today's news from Jawbone + Fuseproject and the video below, today has been the day for the internet of things. Oh, and how the social aspects of machines will begin to shape us.

More research will go down in the coming months on the subject. In the meanwhile, the video below isn't terribly insightful (especially considering the production values and costs) and is kind of depressing, but the events it contains are around the corner...

Related news: I hope that I'm not too excited for the MoMA show Talk to Me

 

Envisioning the Next 25 Years of Technology

This chart from Fast Co Design is a lot of fun. Reminds me of Gibson's quote: "the future is here, it's just poorly distributed."

Stuff near the center is technology we have today. Big nodes are the types of technology. Move out from the center, and you move out to the future. via @mavnet

 

How to perfect the one sentence pitch

Common sense, but not too common. Right for startups, but also for any kind of pitch.

 

Madlibs for Pitching from Video4 on Vimeo.